CV

Since 06/2024

Senior Researcher and Research Group Leader, Just Transition Center (JTC-MLU)

Focus: Climate and Energy Governance, Green Financialisation

Since 02/2021

Private Docent [Privatdozentin], Faculty of Law, Economics and Business, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Since 09/2022

Associate, Dep. Law & Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

04/2024-03/2025

Acting Professor ‘Critical African Studies’, Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University

11/2023 – 04/2024

Fellow, ‘Africa Multiple’ Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth/ Germany

Focus: Research on Peace Mediation and conflict resolution in Africa

01/2024-5/2024

Visiting Professor, Legal Studies Department, Central European University, Vienna/Austria

Focus: Teaching Law and Governance; Sociolegal Methodology

11/2012-08/2022

Post-Doc Research Fellow, Dep. Law & Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Focus: State-Peace-Constitution-Making in the Age of Global Legal Pluralism: South Sudan’s and Somaliland’s

05/2023-10/2023

Fellow, Excellence Cluster ‘Religion & Politics’, Münster University/ Germany

Focus: Legal Pluralism & Coloniality: Politics of Recognition in Africa

06/2017-01/2018

Post-Doc Research Fellow, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science/Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700 “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood”, Freie University Berlin

Focus: Academic Coordinator for Joint Network Rule of Law support [RSF Hub] in collaboration with the Federal Foreign Office of Germany

09/2015 – 08/2016

Fellow, Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Research ‘Global Governance Revisited’, Duisburg/Germany

Focus: International Rule of Law Promotion and Constitution-Making Assistance in South Sudan and Somaliland